{"id":74672,"date":"2017-12-22T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-aims-to-cure-hemophilia"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:15:16","slug":"groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-aims-to-cure-hemophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-aims-to-cure-hemophilia","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Trial Aims to Cure Hemophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-aims-to-cure-hemophilia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single infusion gene therapy treatment improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 percent of patients achieving normal or near-normal levels of the blood clotting factor, even many months after treatment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: British doctors say they have achieved \u201cmind-blowing\u201d results using gene therapy to rid people of hemophilia A. [This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are one step closer to a cure for hemophilia according to the results of a groundbreaking gene therapy trial published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1708483\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical researchers at the Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust have found that over one year after a single gene therapy treatment, patients with hemophilia A are showing normal levels of the previously missing blood clotting factor, effectively curing them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-aims-cure-hemophilia\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/groundbreaking-gene-therapy-trial-...emophilia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single infusion gene therapy treatment improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 percent of patients achieving normal or near-normal levels of the blood clotting factor, even many months after treatment. Summary: British doctors say they have achieved \u201cmind-blowing\u201d results using gene therapy to rid people of hemophilia A. [This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74898,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74672\/revisions\/74898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}